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Travels into the interior of southern Africa : in which are described the character and the condition of the Dutch colonists of the Cape of Good Hope, and of the several tribes of natives beyond its limits : the natural history of such subjects as occurred in the animal, mineral and vegetable kingdoms; and the geography of the southern extremity of Africa : comprehending also a topographical and statistical sketch of Cape Colony; with an inquiry into its importance as a naval and military station, as a commercial emporium; as a territorial possession

by: Barrow, John, Sir, 1764-1848; Daniell, Samuel, 1775-1811, ill; Medland, Thomas, 18th/19th cent., ill; University of the Witwatersrand, former owner. DSI; Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI

Publication date: 1806

Topics: Western Cape (South Africa) -- Description and travel, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), South Africa -- Description and travel

Publisher: London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davis

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Volume: v.2 (1806)

First edition published, 1801-1804, under title: An account of travels into the interior of southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798

On verso of t.p.'s: Strahan and Preston ... London

Plates signed: S. Daniell del, T. Medland sculpt

Leaf of publisher's advertisements at end of v.2

Includes index

Mendelssohn, S. South African bib.

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SCNHRB copy (v.1: 39088012038493; v.2: 390880120385011) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Russell E. Train Africana Collection

SCNHRB copy has bookplate of the Library of the University of the Witwaterstrand, presented by Dr. F.E. Kanthack

SCNHRB copy has some hand-colored plates

SCNHRB copy has sprinkled calf bindings; title in gilt on red leather spine labels. Bookdealer's label: Thorold's Africana Books ... Johannesburg. Letter of possession from the bookdealer laid-in, now removed to the Train manuscript file

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Associated-names: Daniell, Samuel, 1775-1811, ill; Medland, Thomas, 18th/19th cent., ill; University of the Witwatersrand, former owner; Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries)